Getting too smug

[cjsmith]

I was so proud of myself for getting a lot accomplished today, and now I realize (after ducking home quickly to pick something up) I've left my purse at home. So I just drove for fifteen minutes without my driver's license; I'm buying a ten pound bag of cat food at the vet's this evening and I have neither cash, checkbook, nor credit card; and a bunch of notes I really wanted to look over this afternoon are also inconveniently not here in the office with me. I also don't have my cell phone. And I'll need to drive home without my license.

Oh, and taxes! I was so proud of myself for mailing those out last week. I realized TODAY - with maybe two hours left to get anything done about this - that I didn't write an actual CHECK. (Feds owed me; I owed state.) I sent the forms in but didn't pay. This is not optimal. So now, even though these forms were all complete long ago, I have to do last-minute scrambling anyway. (In California you can pay your tax bill by credit card, on line. If you have, y'know, your purse.)

I must have been getting too smug. *sigh*

Comments

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

Write a check. Put your SSN and the words "2007 540" on the bottom of it, and put it in the mail to the Franchise Tax Board. If you want to include a note, do so.

The FTB will figure out what's happened. No need to pay the credit card surcharges.

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

That was, put in the mail >>today<<.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah... if you have, y'know, your checkbook. :) And if you know the amount owed.

I gave up on the concept and went home. Now I have my copy of my tax form AND I have my wallet and all. Too bad about working this afternoon, but at least I can get this taken care of.

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

I suppose my point is that if you've already mailed in your taxes, you don't need to make a copy of them, figure out the postage, and remail everything.

A note to the FTB with a check inside an envelope with a 43c stamp is sufficient. Just make sure it's postmarked today.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha. This is in fact what I did. :)